The language file parsing process could be manipulated to expose environment variables. Environment variables might contain sensible information.

An issue was discovered in Joomla! 1.6.0 through 3.9.24. Inadequate filtering of form contents could allow to overwrite the author field.

Joomla! 1.7.1 has core information disclosure due to inadequate error checking.

Joomla! core 1.7.1 allows information disclosure due to weak encryption

Multiple Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities exist in Joomla! through 1.7.0 in index.php in the search word, extension, asset, and author parameters.

Joomla! before 2.5.3 allows Admin Account Creation.

Joomla! core before 2.5.3 allows unauthorized password change.

In Joomla! before 3.9.11, inadequate checks in com_contact could allow mail submission in disabled forms.

An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.5. The Media Manager component does not properly sanitize the folder parameter, allowing attackers to act outside the media manager root directory.

An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.9.3. A combination of specific web server configurations, in connection with specific file types and browser-side MIME-type sniffing, causes an XSS attack vector.

An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.8.13. If an attacker gets access to the mail account of an user who can approve admin verifications in the registration process, he can activate himself.

An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.8.12. Inadequate checks in the InputFilter class could allow specifically prepared phar files to pass the upload filter.

An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.8.12. Inadequate checks regarding disabled fields can lead to an ACL violation.

An issue was discovered in Joomla! before 3.8.12. Inadequate output filtering on the user profile page could lead to a stored XSS attack.

An XSS issue was discovered in the language switcher module in Joomla! 1.6.0 through 3.8.8 before 3.8.9. In some cases, the link of the current language might contain unescaped HTML special characters. This may lead to reflective XSS via injection of arbitrary parameters and/or values on the current page URL.

In Joomla! Core before 3.8.8, inadequate filtering of file and folder names leads to various XSS attack vectors in the media manager.

An issue was discovered in Joomla! Core before 3.8.8. Under specific circumstances (a redirect issued with a URI containing a username and password when the Location: header cannot be used), a lack of escaping the user-info component of the URI could result in an XSS vulnerability.

An issue was discovered in Joomla! Core before 3.8.8. Inadequate checks allowed users to see the names of tags that were either unpublished or published with restricted view permission.

An issue was discovered in Joomla! Core before 3.8.8. Inadequate input filtering leads to a multiple XSS vulnerabilities. Additionally, the default filtering settings could potentially allow users of the default Administrator user group to perform a XSS attack.

An issue was discovered in Joomla! Core before 3.8.8. The web install application would autofill password fields after either a form validation error or navigating to a previous install step, and display the plaintext password for the administrator account at the confirmation screen.